Dispatch from the Road 2019-2020

 August 2020 In reviewing pictures as a means of recollecting the year I came across a series of videos I took at the Pedigo house in Konorock Virginia. They were all created on August 20th, so obviously we were there, but for the life of me I can’t recall any details of the trip. Millie and Betty I’m thinking this may be when we started seriously thinking of downsizing from the motorhome to a travel trailer because I found a picture of our pickup truck backed up to a Travel Trailer in the storage lot where we keep the motorhome. I was eye-balling the RV behind our standard cab truck to see how it looked. The Rockport Trailer was the same model as we had been studying online as being small enough for towing behind our truck, yet still having a floor plan with all the amenities we desire. Just trying it on for size! Millie continues her early morning beach walks; I went with her one morning something I rarely do as her walks conflict with my morning coffee drinking. We also visited ...

 2020 Living in the year of Covid The year began under the threat of Covid 19, the mysterious respiratory illness that we now know came from China. The politicians of the world are still spouting accusations and rebuttals in every direction. Nobody knows the truth about where the virus came from or if there was some nefarious scheme at play.  The reality of the respiratory illness is it is quickly becoming a pandemic; it will make you deathly ill and may kill you. The government is shutting down the country but not quick enough or complete enough to isolate the US from it spreading here. Domestically, we are forced to wear paper masks in any gathering of people, schools have shut down, businesses closed, and everyone is waiting for the pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine. There is not a lot of panic, but everyone is apprehensive. Hording food became an issue, but soon it became apparent that some essential services would continue to operate. Grocery stores adapted an...

 Part three summer and fall 2019 Throughout the summer and early fall we continued to work around the house and entertaining ourselves locally. Looking back in my references I see we bicycled a lot, sometimes to the beach at the state park and in the evenings on the seven-mile golf cart path around our community course. We went to the Garden City pier several times that summer to listen to the bands that perform there in the evening. There are two bands every night, one at each end of the pier. We attended the performance called “High Steppin Country” at Lakewood Campground. This is a very professional looking show performed by amateur actors, many of them seasonal workers at the campground. In the midst of all this activity, we also managed to complete another house project. We replaced all the heavy wooden storm shutters with ones made from hollow wall polycarbonate panels. My friend Gary got a deal on 4x12 foot sheets of the hollow wall polycarbonate, and I fabricated the new st...

 This is the original text written in 2019 and some notes (In blue italics) I jotted down sometime later. I probably planned on using the notes to re-write the article, but never got around to it. Occasionally someone will tell me that they haven’t seen the Dispatch in a while. I usually say something to the effect that we haven’t been traveling much, but I plan to write when we venture out again. When I said those things I was being partially honest. It’s true we’ve lost some of the wanderlust since becoming homeowners again and haven’t been traveling. But besides that, I was getting the feeling the writing just wasn’t any good. It seemed to me that I was saying the same things over and over. I also hadn’t come up with any good humorous stories in a while. So here we are, out on the road for a short two week trip and I’m trying to think of something to say.  I decided to check the last posting and see where I left off, and was surprised to find I have been silent for seven an...